Sentence examples for forms of medicalization from inspiring English sources

Box 1.  Forms of medicalization.

It was religious studies scholar, Sidney Callahan, who articulated the group's widely shared view that we need to get clearer about the difference between "good" and "bad" forms of medicalization.

"You have the ultimate form of medicalization, which enables those carrying out the execution in many cases to feel very little," Dr. Lifton said.

As with the growing commodification of aging (39), this is a form of medicalization.

As Benedetto Vitiello observed, we can all agree that, to the extent that medicalizing childbirth saves the lives of women and children, it is good; similarly, we can agree that labeling political dissenters as mentally ill (a form of medicalization that occurred in the former Soviet Union) is bad.

"There has been a sort of medicalization of being incapacitated by the stress of combat or by fear," said David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization.

Buffel V, Beckfield J, Bracke P. The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Comparative Approach to Medicalizing Unemployment.

The rise in prenatal testing allows parents and society at large new forms of control over what sorts of children are born, and it enhances the level of medicalization and surveillance during pregnancy.

The concept of medicalization is particularly relevant in Bangladesh, a country with a history of medical pluralism.

In the modern era of medicalization, the pendulum swung the other way.

Hummingbird's work with the psychiatric healthcare system left her concerned that the millennia-old spiritual traditions surrounding psychedelics risk being sidelined in the process of medicalization.